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Stimulus Working for You?
Section 1604 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (AARA) specifically prohibits funds from flowing to certain entertainment and recreation projects.
Does a casino, aquarium, zoo, golf course, or swimming pool sound like recreation or entertainment to you?…
Health Care Bill: Obama’s Lack of Transparency
Although promising the public would have five days to look at every bill online before signing it into law, Obama has signed the health care bill just 36 hours after it passed the House.
Check out the video.…
The Transparent Presidency?
What about that pledge for C-Span transparency?
Public support for the health care bill continues to fall, and President Obama’s accounts of unfulfilled promises of televised health care negotiations may start to put the pressure on. Will the new …
Transparency from the Fed?
During the past year, the Federal Reserve “created $2 trillion of assets and debts to rescue the nation’s financial institutions.”
Taxpayers have no idea how this money is being spent, but they have every right to know who received what …
Obama bodes well for government transparency
In fewer than 24 hours in office, President Obama has made a small but significant step forward for government transparency at the federal level. I wholeheartedly approve.
My buddy jtlight sent me a link to a site depicts the robots.txt …
CTA…Olympics…Obama…and more
WWBOD? What would Barack Obama do? Seriously… why are Illinois “elected officials…talking…that the Barack Obama presidency will do much of the heavy lifting” to shape up the CTA?
Where Did that 100K Go?
Here was have another blaring example of Illinois’ need for transparency in government:
A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer
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